Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 522 Entering the Cave
When the two walked in, they discovered that the gap was the entrance of a tunnel whose lower half was submerged in sea water.

All that was left was a narrow, dark opening into which Black could not enter at all.

McGuffin may be able to get in by turning sideways, but it is too worthless. If it gets stuck halfway through the flight, it will have to continue diving into the sea.

Looking at the arrow displayed in the black ink on the note, it pointed forward unmistakably.

McGuffin and Black discussed it and decided to enter it from the bottom of the sea.

"Waterproof and moisture-proof!"

"Bubble head curse!"

"Armor protection!"

"Protect from evil!"

McGuffin took out his wand and cast spells on himself one after another.

Sirius frowned, he dropped the MacGuffin and jumped into the sea.

Heh, there is no buff added before entering the book.

McGuffin despises Black's sense of security.

"Strong and mighty!"

After finally casting a spell, McGuffin stretched his limbs, bent over to expand his chest, and warmed up to avoid cramping in the water.
And then finally... he crashed into the water.

into the water?

Well, yes, McGuffin actually doesn't know how to swim.

The water splash brought out was very high.

With a head-bubbling spell, McGuffin continued to follow Sirius in front of him in a dog-planing manner.

The sea water is turbid and dark, and the undercurrent here is constantly trying to roll McGuffin's body, trying to deflect him from the direction, dragging him to sink continuously. Fortunately, he has added a lot of magic buffs before, so that McGuffin doesn't have to worry about breathing, and can shake his limbs with all his strength...following Black closely.

Some seaweed... or other plants, or garbage debris left by Muggle activities, plastic bags... Floating randomly on the sea surface, with waves and waves, stuck to the film of the Bubble Head Curse, so that McGuffin had to wave his wand vigorously to push them away.

Although the waterproof and moisture-proof spell was cast, the seawater still poured into it from the gaps in the clothes immediately, and McGuffin felt that his body immediately became bulging and heavy.

When he reached the dark gap, Black immediately took a breath and sank, moving forward with a perfect swimming posture, passing through the dark passage below. (This guy really deserves to be the guy who escaped directly from Azkaban... the guy who swam directly across the North Sea, his swimming skills are not perfect...)
I don't know what kind of magic he cast, but the dark sea around Sirius exudes a soft light, making this place like being in a kind of magic, after the light is deflected, it's like being in an extremely clear daytime ocean.

McGuffin continued to swim forward with Black, and he could see that the rock walls on both sides were only three feet apart, covered with silt, and densely packed, even disgusting, some kind of snail-like creatures, and some small planktonic insects or shallow sea creatures such as small fish and shrimps drilled through the silt and the holes on the rock wall, trying to survive.

Here...it is dark, cloudy, icy cold and represents the vitality of the other side of nature.

But as the two continued to swim forward, these creatures gradually decreased... In the end, even seaweed, algae and other plants, and some of the smallest plankton disappeared...

There are only deep, dark waters...

The temperature of the sea water became colder and colder, and the coldness almost penetrated into the heart and bone marrow.

From time to time, Black floated to the dark passage above to take a breath. He probably didn't notice these disturbing changes in the undersea tunnel.

But McGuffin has made it clear...they are close to where Voldemort placed the [Horcrux].

All the changes he saw proved this point.

Turn left along the dark passage,
The tunnel in the sea began to become narrower and narrower, and McGuffin leaned over... the cold, rough rocks, trying to avoid those sharp protruding rocks, so as to prevent his bubble head spell from being pierced.

That's game over.

When McGuffin had to swim deeper, he suddenly found that Black suddenly disappeared.

Is it?

He quickly swam up and forward with great effort, and found a... stone steps soaked in seawater in front of him.

He climbed up the stone steps step by step, and as his body came out of the water... the sea water flowed out from the bulging clothes, from the cuffs, and from the pants legs.

Shir!
This is very uncomfortable!

I knew I wouldn't cast the waterproof and moisture-proof spell.

However, McGuffin finally left the damn water.

The coldness and dampness in the cave made McGuffin tremble constantly while holding his arms.

However, although the temperature, air and other objective factors... make this place very cold and cold, but other aspects... some subjective factors make the cave not at all like the place where Voldemort hid the Horcrux.

Yep, he's talking about the little things that turn this spooky cave into a party.

The Little Geffen gathered in front of that rock wall, where the magic defense device had been completely destroyed by these guys.

Now that stone wall can only emit a faint black-red electric spark... At most, it can only shock one or two small things, and it will be over if it shakes on the spot.

The glowing arches also appeared continuously as the little Griffins attacked the stone wall..., and the original dazzling light gradually dimmed.

Blake hurriedly hugged his head, trying to stop these little guys.

"Get out of here, go go...go over there and play!"

Maybe it reminded me of what McGuffin once said, what these little things love most is the kind of weak, unconscious magic.

Blake had no choice but to smooth out his newly grown hair with a wand, and then turned it into some fluffy, glowing balls, letting them roll around on the ground, rolling to the other side, intending to attract the attention of these little things.

It's a pity that although some of the Little Geffen ran over, more of the little ones screamed angrily, and some directly stared at the big fool with their contemptuous little eyes.

After seeing McGuffin finally come up,

He breathed a sigh of relief.

"Albert, that's great, it should be this place! That roll of parchment points to the direction of that stone wall! Can you put away your little...things. They're too dangerous...too troublesome..." Black said.

McGuffin raised his shoes independently, poured out the water inside, and after drying his body, he looked at the glowing arch that appeared in the plot.

He remembered that the thing seemed to... needed blood to turn it on.

Under the command of the general McGuffin, the rock wall was finally freed from the Paty of the little Goffins... and calm was restored.

"In a while... open this door, it is estimated that they will be used again, who knows what kind of black magic Voldemort will arrange to guard this place!" McGuffin explained.

Black looked at the Little Guffins apprehensively, touched his head that had become a quail egg for the second time, and nodded with difficulty.

The two began to study the rock wall.

Black tapped on it with his wand and tried a lot of spells, but he was struck by the black and red lightning constantly and trembled from the electricity. Fortunately, the magic spell attached to it had been consumed by the little things, otherwise McGuffin really didn't know if Black would die here directly.

"Bone reappears!"

A green skull with the black magic mark of a long snake appeared, and even this did not touch the reaction of the arch.

Black finally gave up trying a little bit, he started to pick up the roll of parchment and re-examine it...to see if Dumbledore had written any tricks or other solutions in advance.

Obviously not.

McGuffin waited for Black for a long time, and after realizing that he really hadn't thought of a way, he said, "Sirius... I seem to know how to get past here."

Blake looked up, a little in disbelief.

McGuffin ignored it, and continued to stare at the arch and said, "Since this is a magical mechanism set up by the mysterious man, we have to follow his train of thought and think about it... how to solve it!"

"Secret order, a certain specific solution to the curse, or the blood and killing that the Dark Lord likes most... to open this door..."

"There can only be one of three ways to disarm this mechanism, and according to the arrogant character of the Dark Lord, the latter is undoubtedly the most likely..."

"Let's try it out, if it doesn't work, go back to Professor Dumbledore! There's no way to mess around here!"

McGuffin suggested.

"Okay!" Blake nodded.

With a flick of his wand, it turned into one of those... crooked knives used to slaughter cattle.

One arm is long, and the cold light flickers.

"What are you going to do?"

"Bleeding! Didn't you say that?" Blake raised his arms and looked at his strokes. Hearing McGuffin's question, he looked at the little wizard in front of him with some irritability.

Snapped!
McGuffin slapped his forehead, and said speechlessly, "This thing is a magic door, a magic mechanism... Even if it is cast by the Dark Lord, it will not have consciousness and wisdom. We have to think from the thoughts of the mysterious man, not act according to his thoughts...It would be better to wipe your neck and kill yourself sooner..."

Perhaps it was because McGuffin's tone was too loud, which made Black's self-esteem a little bit hit. He coldly snorted and stepped aside, just motionless... wanting to see how McGuffin will perform.

McGuffin didn't do much, but started to rummage through his magic pocket that had been casted with the [Untraceable Stretch Curse], and took out a lot of messy things from it: werewolf balls, iron chains, long swords, Muggle pistols, bullets, flames... some magic alchemy props, balances, beakers, Goldenthorn, part of the leaves of Datura, Rafflesia extract (preserved in a glass bottle)...

at last……

"Ha, I found it... I remember it was still there!" McGuffin exclaimed in surprise.

McGuffin took out a small palm-sized suitcase from the pocket of his robe, which was tightly tied with hemp rope.

After chanting a spell in a low voice, the suitcase became bigger (as big as a normal suitcase) and unbound... After opening it, there were dozens of blood-colored vials neatly arranged on it, some big and some small.

"This is?"

"Blood!"

"Blood?"

Black didn't understand what a student would do with so much blood.

Thinking of the strangeness of the little wizard in front of him, an alarm bell sounded in his heart.

Isn't this guy secretly contacting some kind of black magic?
"That's right, blood... all kinds of blood!" McGuffin said happily, "You should have learned from Harry that a mysterious person cast a [Blood Curse] on me, right?"

"Um!?"

"I was looking for some material to lift the curse, but I spent a lot of time collecting blood... one by one experiment..."

"Look... this is fire dragon blood..." McGuffin picked up a small crystal bottle with a little show off, which was filled with some kind of viscous liquid.

"This is... a long-horned water snake... well, at least that's what the elf who sold it to me said."

"The blood of the giant... the eight-eyed spider... the three-headed dog... I asked Hagrid for these. I sponsored him to go to the dragon sanctuary in Romania to get the blood."

"This is... from the South American Vampire Succubus..." When McGuffin introduced this, some indescribable fear appeared on his face.

"However, I guess I only need some pig's blood... the largest portion is fine, as I said... it's just a magic mechanism." McGuffin's tone was filled with contempt.

Black felt strange in his heart, it was the first time he felt from someone other than Dumbledore... this kind of behavior and tone of extreme contempt for Voldemort.

"Okay, let's try it? Hmm... a bit rotten, but it's okay... just enough."

MacGuffin unscrewed one of the largest, beaker-like glass containers (full of red blood),

He sniffed it with disgust.
Then he carried it to the front of the light arch on the rock wall,

He splashed the pig's blood on it.

Immediately, the rock surface was covered with sticky bloodstains.

It is indeed a bit corrupted, an unpleasant smell of blood mixed with the smell of damp soil in the cave, the smell of the sea... Distributed together throughout the cave, which cannot be dissipated, it is very disgusting.

"No response... How about trying it, sheep blood?" McGuffin asked suspiciously.

Before the words were finished, the arch on the cave wall emitted a dazzling light again, this time it was as dazzling as a spotlight, and McGuffin and Black couldn't help turning their heads and closing their eyes to avoid the light.

But when the light disappeared and the two of them came back to their senses, the blood-stained rock in the arch suddenly disappeared, revealing a doorway with endless darkness inside.

The wind was blowing, and the two shuddered at the same time.

But the bad smell dissipated instantly.

"Slow down! Let's wait..."

When Blake wanted to go inside, McGuffin reached out and stopped him.

Then he whistled, and the little Guffins floated up and rushed inside.

After a while,

"Okay, I know what's in there... Be careful, don't make any noise!"

McGuffin walked into the doorway, and Blake followed behind with some doubts.

For some reason, those little Geffen were shining brightly, like fireflies, floating not far from the entrance, not so 'bear', so noisy!
Their small magic spells brought out a faint green fluorescence... Bit by bit, it illuminated this place.

By these faint lights, MacGuffin and Black found themselves standing on the shore of a great black lake.

The lake is so wide that it stretches as far as the eye can see.

They couldn't believe they were in a cave under a cliff,

Looking up, they don't see any top rocks at all.

The slippery pebbles kept accumulating and piled up to form the shore under the two people's feet.

The lake was dead silent, without any fluctuations, only an inexplicable green light flickered on the surface of the lake, and they looked along the light... The lake was boundless and endless, as if this was an endless underground world.

(End of this chapter)